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BOOK REVIEW - TEXTBOOK ON COMMERCIAL LAW
TEXTBOOK ON COMMERCIAL LAW. I wan R. Davies, LL.B., LL.M., Ph.D., Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law, Cardiff Law School. Blackstone Press Ltd., London (1992) xli and 480 pp., plus 6 pp. Appendix and 15 pp. Index. Paperback £19.95.
This is a book avowedly “written for students on Law, Accountancy and Banking Degree schemes”, and this may account for the rather idiosyncratic compilation of contents. Agency relationships, for example, attract only a passing mention, while corporate insolvency is discussed at a level of detail which would not be out of place in a company law textbook. On the other hand, the bold typeface attributed to “resolution of commercial disputes” on the con
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